Really cool website with beautiful images of tarot, etc.

[Maximius]

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/amcldraw.html

 

I've been looking around for cool images and I found this sight, its got hundreds of images of alchemical and tarot related symbols. If nothing else its good for inspiration.

[Unstoppable]

That's some nice artwork thanks.

[Macsen]

There's even a mission plan. Might be worth building.

[Maximius]

Wow, the alchemists house even comes with a dung bath! Now thats living!

[Ishtvan]

Those are some crazy 1606 illustrations. Does anyone else find the attempts to convey perspective to be mind boggling? It's like they sort've attempted to convey the perspective of looking at a rectangular building at an angle, but then there were some round parts that stuck out at the front and back, so they just painted them on the front and back rectangle faces as if they were 2d objects.

 

Isn't this dated after they rediscovered how to properly draw 3d objects? Is there any excuse for this? Was this just the style of architectural drawings at that place and time?

[demagogue]

I'm thinking a lot of the authors did their own artwork, so they're not trained artists. They probably wouldn't trust an outsider artist to get the symbology right, and that's the most important part for them.

 

I love alchemy stuff, so it's fun to look through this.

Edited August 2, 2007 by demagogue

[Maximius]

I love this stuff too, its so damned cool. I wish I could find my old tarot deck, as much as I despise mysticism I find this stuff fascinating.

Edited August 2, 2007 by Maximius

[Domarius]

Yeah there's something creepy about this kind of artwork in the right context.

[demagogue]

I recently found this site (http://www.voynich.nu/index.html, or wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_MS) on the Voynich manuscript while following links on unsolved codes. It's one of these medieval mysticism tomes written entirely in a secret language with an unknown script of some 40 odd squiggles. Statistical analysis says it has the statistical properties of a natural language, but it's proving incredibly hard to crack.

 

Reading through all the analysis this thing has been subjected to ... how they're making just enough progress in decoding it that it keeps it interesting, but enough mystery that there are always more questions than answers, it's fascinating.

Edited August 7, 2007 by demagogue